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Zoé Headley
HEADLEY, Zoé E.
zoeheadley@gmail.com
A social anthropologist specialized on Tamil society, Zoé E. Headley completed her PhD thesis “Indra's thieves: Perceptions, Networks and Parameters of Belonging amongst the Pramalai Kallar Sub-Caste (South India)” (EHESS, 2007). Two post-doctoral projects, accomplished at the South Asian Institute (SAI, University of Heidelberg), have oriented her focus toward issues of legal pluralism in contemporary Tamil Nadu. She is currently affiliated at the CEIAS (EHESS-Paris) as a post-doctoral researcher and coordinating a pilot project funded by the Endangered Archives Programme (British Library, ARCADIA) regarding Tamil customary law.
Education
2007 PhD Social Anthropology, EHESS, Paris, with highest honours
1998 MPhil Social Anthropology, EHESS, Paris, with highest honours
1997 MA Social Anthropology, SOAS, London
1995 BA South Asian Studies, SOAS, London
Grants
2009 Fieldwork grant, EFEO, Paris-Pondicherry
2007-2008 Clemens Heller post-doctoral fellowship, affiliated to the South Asia Institute (SAI), Heidelberg University, Germany
2006-2007 Lavoisier scholarship for a project on Caste, representation and democratic process in India : an essay in political anthropology, affiliated to the South Asia Institute (SAI), Heidelberg University, Germany
2001 Laureate of a scholarship of Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient
1999-2000 Indo-French Scholarship (MAE-ICCR)
1999 Scholarship for language training (MAE) in the Tamil Summer School (IFP, Pondicherry)
Management of research
2010-2011 Coordinator of the pilot project: Rescuing Tamil customary law: locating and copying endangered records of village judicial assemblies (1870-1940).
Publications
(forthcoming) « Of dangerous guardians and contested hierarchies: an ethnographic reading of a south Indian copperplate» », in Murugaiyan, A., (éd.) Studies in Tamil Epigraphy: Historical Sources and Multidisciplinary Approach. Cre-A Publishers, Chennai.
(2007) « Genealogies of affliction. Aetiological regimes and causal assessment in an Indian sub-caste», Indian Anthropologist, Special issue « Ethnographies of Healing », vol. 37, n° 1, pp. 29-48.
(2003), with Delage R., Identités et territoires en Inde, Proceedings of the 6th Ateliers Jeunes Chercheurs en Sciences Sociales, organized by AJEI, 17-21 February 2003, University of Calcutta, Department of History, Kolkata, India, Newcon Global Services, Pondicherry, 139 p. http://www.ajei.org/files/AJCSS03Actes.pdf
